{"id":143160,"date":"2025-09-17T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143160\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:52:07","slug":"ricky-hatton-family-say-ex-world-champion-was-excited-for-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/143160\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Hatton: Family say ex-world champion was &#8216;excited for future&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatton spoke about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/63589333\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">battling depression<\/a> and in 2023 was the subject of a documentary in which he discussed his personal life and mental health issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His family said Hatton was found by friend and long-time manager Paul Speak.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatton won 45 of his 48 professional bouts during a 15-year career and was world champion at light-welterweight and welterweight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He last fought professionally in 2012 and was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/boxing\/articles\/cz6g8jvdjxqo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">due to fight<\/a> Eisa Al Dah on 2 December in Dubai.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Organisers said it would be a professional bout, but it was unclear whether it would be fully sanctioned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The family said: &#8220;His bag was packed ready to go to Dubai to promote a comeback fight and he was planning a celebration in Dubai, which his beloved girls Millie and Fearne were to be the centre of.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He was excited that they would see him fight for the first time in person. He was a doting grandfather and loved spending time with Campbell and Lydia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hatton&#8217;s family asked for a &#8220;period of private and personal mourning&#8221; and said details of a memorial service will likely follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hatton spoke about battling depression and in 2023 was the subject of a documentary in which he discussed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-143160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}